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    Greater Manchester 1 day peak train and bus ticket?

    Pre Covid when I commuted from Wigan to Manchester by rail and bus I would buy GM County cards, eventually annual. It was very convenient. Is there anything similar for single day use? At a glance there doesn’t seem to be, county cards are weekly, monthly, annual it seems. It needs to include...
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    Southport Line shortforming.

    6 journeys so far this week on the peak Southport - Alderley Edge service and 5 short forms. 2 car 150s, people left at Westhoughton, Bolton, in a morning, Oxford Road , Salford Crescent in the evening, ridiculous... From Southport it seems the 142s have been withdrawn and replaced with...
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    Putting the 185s on a diet: Could they be made light enough for sprinter speeds?

    The 170s and 185s seem to be unsuited for stopping services but it seems there’s going to be an excess of them. Would it be prohibitively expensive to fit shorter ratio gearboxes to these long distance trains?

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